TuringData annotation
Image/Video Annotator
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About this role, in Turing's words
We are seeking creative and detail-oriented professionals with strong visual interpretation skills to help advance large multimodal AI systems. In this role, you will work on annotating and analyzing videos or images or both , capturing intricate details such as people, objects, environments, relationships, emotions, and storytelling flow.
What you'll do
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze short video clips and images to identify and annotate key visual and narrative components, including subjects, settings, actions, and emotions.
- Describe temporal sequences, scene transitions, and interactions in videos with high accuracy.
- Label complex visual cues such as mood, lighting, and spatial relationships.
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- Follow detailed annotation guidelines to ensure consistency, clarity, and data quality.
- Validate AI-generated outputs for correctness, structure, and relevance.
- Collaborate with project leads to align on evolving annotation standards and quality benchmarks.
- Contribute structured datasets that improve AI model understanding of both static and dynamic visual information.
Candidate background
Requirements
- English Proficiency: Ability to read, write and communicate in English with high comprehension skills.
- Attention to Detail: Ability to follow nuanced instructions with precision.
- Technical Comfort: Familiarity with basic computer tools and working with file uploads/audio formats.
- Analytical Thinking: Ability to understand context and intent in scripts.
- Past experience in image/video annotation is preferred but is not necessary
- Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Independence: Self-motivated and able to work independently in a remote setting.
- Availability: At least 20 hours/week is preferred—requirement to be finalized closer to the onboarding date.
- Technical Setup and Equipment: Reliable computer (desktop/laptop) with stable internet connection.
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in Turing's words
Posted by Turing, reproduced here so you can judge the role before clicking. Original posting ↗
About Turing:
Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.
Turing helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies.
Role Overview:
We are seeking creative and detail-oriented professionals with strong visual interpretation skills to help advance large multimodal AI systems. In this role, you will work on annotating and analyzing videos or images or both , capturing intricate details such as people, objects, environments, relationships, emotions, and storytelling flow.
Your work will directly contribute to training next-generation AI models to better perceive, interpret, and reason about the visual world—helping them understand scenes, motion, and context just as humans do.
Key Responsibilities:
• Analyze short video clips and images to identify and annotate key visual and narrative components, including subjects, settings, actions, and emotions.
• Describe temporal sequences, scene transitions, and interactions in videos with high accuracy.
• Label complex visual cues such as mood, lighting, and spatial relationships.
• Follow detailed annotation guidelines to ensure consistency, clarity, and data quality.
• Validate AI-generated outputs for correctness, structure, and relevance.
• Collaborate with project leads to align on evolving annotation standards and quality benchmarks.
• Contribute structured datasets that improve AI model understanding of both static and dynamic visual information.
Requirements:
• English Proficiency: Ability to read, write and communicate in English with high comprehension skills.
• Attention to Detail: Ability to follow nuanced instructions with precision.
• Technical Comfort: Familiarity with basic computer tools and working with file uploads/audio formats.
• Analytical Thinking: Ability to understand context and intent in scripts.
• Past experience in image/video annotation is preferred but is not necessary
• Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Independence: Self-motivated and able to work independently in a remote setting.
• Availability: At least 20 hours/week is preferred—requirement to be finalized closer to the onboarding date.
• Technical Setup and Equipment: Reliable computer (desktop/laptop) with stable internet connection.
Perks of Freelancing With Turing:
• Work in a fully remote environment.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects with leading LLM companies.
• Potential for contract extension based on performance and project needs.
Offer Details:
• Commitments Required: 4 hours per day and 20 hours per week with 4 hours of overlap with PST
• Engagement type : Contractor assignment/freelancer (no medical/paid leave)
Working with TuringPay, getting started and work, from Turing's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Paid monthly, around the 5th, straight to your bank account, or inside Deel on projects run through Deel. Its help articles disagree on whether that is the 5th calendar day or business day. help.turing.com/articles/9691407757-project-onboarding, help.turing.com/articles/6582454854-what-if-i-haven-t-rec..., help.turing.com/articles/1226770947-project-offboarding
- Before your first paid task
- A short application, with tests on some roles. Turing's review article says an interview is typically required for all roles. Onboarding covers the terms, ID verification with a driver's license or passport, and tax and payment details. help.turing.com/articles/2020987592-apply-for-jobs-at-turing, help.turing.com/articles/9179629201-how-long-does-the-app..., help.turing.com/articles/9691407757-project-onboarding
- How much work
- Review takes from 48 hours to 6 weeks after you finish applying, and the client makes the final choice. No reply within 6 weeks usually means you were not selected. help.turing.com/articles/9179629201-how-long-does-the-app..., help.turing.com/articles/2020987592-apply-for-jobs-at-turing
- Contract
- Depending on the project, the engagement rests on Turing's Terms of Service and a Service Agreement, on Deel, or on a partner that provides the contract. help.turing.com/articles/6582454854-what-if-i-haven-t-rec...
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
How does the pay compare?Across Data annotation roles, not this role alone
From our own daily reads of every open listing on the platforms we follow, not from Turing's posting. How we count.
Pay across the field: Data annotation
Across 59 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 10 platforms, the middle half pays $15 to $50 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $25.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Claru | 27 | $10 to $100 · median $28 |
| micro1 | 14 | $10 to $80 · median $15 |
| Alignerr | 7 | $24 to $120 |
| Grayder | 3 | $45 to $100 |
| Mercor | 2 | $50 to $65 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 19 Sep 2026, and still on Turing's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- Posted by Turing
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- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 52974
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